ABC's Shushannah Walshe's reportage from Mitt and Karl's Park City Prom Night emphasizes the accolades slathered on one particular speaker.
... "spectacular" and described her as a "very bright, sophisticated, articulate lady."
"she rocked it."
... message was one of "America needing to take charge."
"We can't stand by and let things happen," the wife said. "If we do, someone else will take that leadership role."
No one could have anticipated such a speech, I suppose.
This outpouring of oryzaphilia has instigated a nagging itch in the old Vor noggin. What if the Beltway Conventional Wisdom is (gasp) wrong and the non-coordinators like Rove are planning a Game Change for Lame Strange?
Not Marco, bless his little Daydream Act-ed heart. Not Kelly, either.
No, I'm thinking if Mitt's masters want a game change, they'll go big. With Condi.
"Wow!" the pundits will exclaim. "Black and female! Top that, Obama!" They will babble on that Ms. Rice's foreign policy experience neuters the argument that Mitt's a one-argument ("I know how to fire people") candidate. They'll remind us that she plays piano.
Oh, how they will dance. And whoop. And whistle. Past Mitt's political graveyard.
No matter how they natter, Condaleeza Rice, like her predecessor Gen. Powell, will be remembered throughout history for a single moment in the spotlight.
Imagine the ads the DNC, the Obama campaign and I will be making should the Romney campaign choose this "ground-breaking," "game-changing" option. Not only would Ms. Rice's personal statements ("I believe the title was..." "in the form of a mushroom cloud") be revisited, but her role as a liar and warmonger will allow us to hammer home the fact that every one of Romney's foreign affairs team is an Iraq war cheerleader, a PNAC toady and a Bushie.
With nearly two-thirds of Americans agreeing with the sentiment that the war in Iraq was "not worth fighting" (and 8 out of 10 supporting Obama's move to end it), I would purely love to get one of the unrepentant principals up on that convention stage and into those Sunday show one-on-ones.
Come on, Mitt. Change that game!
Update: Y'all make very persuasive arguments against the thesis. Nonetheless, I've uploaded a pic to my photobucket account.
Just in case.